That one is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21988968. This one was probably posted in response to it. That happens a lot. We tend to downweight such follow-up or copycat posts since they make the front page more samey. It's better to post links to related articles in the original thread.
Not as much as it used to be. I’ve been in a few distros lately (container distros mostly) that only had nano. I got all “get off my lawn” about it too.
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